Capitán Bado is a city in the
Amambay
Amambay () is a department in Paraguay. The capital is Pedro Juan Caballero.
The name comes from the name of a part of the Caaguazú Cordillera, "Amambai Mountains". Amambay is the name of a fern, typical of the forest in the region.
Distric ...
department of
Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
.
It was founded on July 25, 1914 during the government of Eduardo Schaerer. It is located on the
Cordillera del Amambay, the mountain range in northern Paraguay.
Toponymy
The city was founded under the name "Captain Bado" in honor of José Matías Bado, an army officer from the town of
Pilar who fought in the
War of the Triple Alliance
The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to 1870. It was fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay. It was the deadlies ...
, when Paraguay opposed
Argentina
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,
Uruguay
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and
Brazil
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. Before that, the city was known as ''Ñu Verá'', meaning "bright field" in
Guarani.
Geography
Located 110 km from
Pedro Juan Caballero, Capitán Bado is a frontier city on the boundary between Paraguay and Brazil. It spreads to the foot of the Cordillera del Amambay and only a street separates it from the Brazilian city of
Coronel Sapucaia
Coronel Sapucaia is a municipality located in the Brazilian state
The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collect ...
.
Economy
The main economic activity of the population is agriculture. Chiefly,
yerba mate
Yerba mate or yerba-maté (''Ilex paraguariensis''; from Spanish ; pt, erva-mate, or ; gn, ka'a, ) is a plant species of the holly genus '' Ilex'' native to South America. It was named by the French botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire. The lea ...
is grown, along with
subsistence
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products such as fruits and vegetables. There is also large-scale
logging and
sawing
A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge. It is used to cut through material, very often wood, though sometimes metal or stone. The cut is made by placing the toothed edge against the material and mov ...
, and subsequent export of roundwood. This is done without adequate control, and as a result the district has reached high levels of deforestation. The city has major sawmills, as well as yerba mate silos and mills.
The inhabitants are also engaged in local business, import and export. The ''Avenida Internacional'' ("International Avenue") is the border with the city of Coronel Sapucaia in Brazil.
Cannabis cultivation
Capitán Bado's informal economy also produces of Indian hemp or pressed
marijuana, also known as "brick weed," as usual in the province of Amambay, which accounts for 75% of the total 5,000 hectares of plantation land in Paraguay.
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References
World Gazeteer: Paraguay
– World-Gazetteer.com
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Populated places in the Amambay Department